Dyeing machine



W. J. GOING. 0mm; MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14. 1920,.

Patented Feb. 21, 192 2.

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DYEING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4, 1920.

l ,4 O7,265 Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

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DYEING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14. 1920.

- I 1,407,265, Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

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ENIOR in part pointed out hereinafter.

mares era-res ea s WILLIAM'J. some, or SCH-ENECTAIIY, new YORK, assrenora roman K-LAnnEn- WELDON'DYEl-NG .rraorrrnn correanr, on JENKINTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA,A

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Serial No. 8,936.

To all whom'z't may concern V I Be it known that LlYILLLlA I 'J. Gems, a citizen of the United States, residing at Schenectady, in the county of Schenectady and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dyeing Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and'use the same.

The invention relates toyarn treating machines, and withrespect to its more specific features, to yarn dyeing apparatus, and this application isa division o-f application filed Ma 8,1916, SerialNumber 96,099.

one of the objects of the invention is the I provision of a simple and practical yarn dyeing apparatus in; which the yarn is continuously immersed in the dye liquid during the dyeing operatio i Another object ofthe invention'is the provision, in apparatus of the character referred to, of rotary yarn sticks,and means coupled therewith, for preventing injury to the machine should the rotation of the sticks be abnormally resisted- Other objects will be in part obvious and The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in theconstruction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claims. 3

'In the accompanying drawings formingpart of this specification, and wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views,-

' Figure 1 is a side elevation of an embodiment of the invention, showing the vat and operating devices; v Fig. 2 isa plan of Fig; 1; p,

Figs. 3, 1 and 5 are detail; views illustrating a form of yieldable connection between the yarn sticks and the rotary driving means therefor; Figs. l and 5 being sectional views "on the lines y/y and w .zv,"a's indicated.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a vat adapted to contain the treating liquid, as dye liquor for dyeing the field. oflyarn immersed in the vat. A cover for the vat is 7 at 4:, the sections? being hinged to the ends of the vat at 5 f and the sections 3 being provided with a handle or other manipulating device 6. Bythis construction the section 3 sp fi i ii i ere. Patented Feb; anaeea Original application'filed ra 8, 1916, Serial N 96,099. Divided and this application filed J' m f a 1 may turn on its hinge i to partially uncover the vat, orboth sections may turn on hinge 5 to wholly uncover the vat. Onepair of the sections fold to the left, in Fig. 3, and the other pair to the right. i

l Vit'hin the vat are transverse partitions 7 and 8 spaced from both the top and bottom of the vat and providing chambers 9 and 10 at opposite sides of the vat, in each of which chambers are located means adapted to ,establish currents of the treating liquid. In the present embodiment each current-establishing means comprises rotarypropellers having flat vanes 11' extending across the vat near the center oflts depth and j ournaled in longitudinallydisposed partitions l2 and 13 forming the sides of the chambers 9 and 10,'

Eachpropelle'r comprises a plurality of propelling wheels provided 'with'the fiat vanes 11 referred to and intermeshing in a manner similar to] that of a rotary pump, the axesof eaclrpair of wheels being'provided with in tor-meshing gears 14 and 15, so'that when one is rotated the other will rotate there with. The gears 141316 connected to rotate jwith short shafts 16 suitably journaled in a side wall of the vat and provided with bevel gears 17 and 18 meshlng with bevel'gears l9 nd 2 he o itu nal y i p sed et s shaft 21 journaled in brackets 22' on'the side of the' vat. 23 indicates a belt pulley ro- ,tatably'mounted on the shaft 21 and adapted to be clutched to said shaft-for driving the same by any suitable form of clutch having a clutch collar 24., splined to shaft 21, and

which latter collar may be manipulated by a shift lever 25 The numeral 26 indicates a gear wheelrotatingwith the shaftfZl and meshing with a gear wheel 27 carried by a worm shaft 28, the latter being provided withr a worm 29 engaging a worm wheel 30 mounted to rotate on a short shaft 31 ported in a bracket 32 on the side of the'vat. 33 indicates a clutch element splined )tojthe shaft- 31and having a clutch face adapted to cooperate with a clutch face on the worm 7 ed for support to a frame 37 which may be .tation of certain yarn sticks.

wheel 30, sothat when the clutch elements of the worm wheel 80 and the collar 33 are in engagement, the shaftvfll will be rotated.

Within the vat, on the shaft 81, is a gear wheel 34tadapted to mesh with the end one of a series of gear wheels 33, the rotation of the wheels 35 being adapted to effect ro- The series of yarn sticks is adapted to support a plurality, or field of hanks of yarn, within the vat during the dyeing operation. In the present embodiment a plurality'of the sticks is supported in the upper portion of the vat on shoulders 36 extending from the partitions '7 and 8, the plurality of sticks being connectvertically moved into and out of the Vat w ien the cover is open. Above the frame 37 is supported a series of deflecting plates 38 consisting of inclined cross pieces connected at their opposite ends to longitudinal stringers 39 adapted to removably rest on the tops of the partitions 7 and 8. The purpose of the deflecting plates 38 will be more fully explained hereinafter, it being sufficient to note at this point that when the cover is open and the frame 87 carrying the dye sticks is lifted from the vat, these deflecting plates 38 will be lifted therewith. Furthermore, as the plates 38 merely loosely rest in their position in the vat, they may be removed from the vat independently of the yarn stick supporting frame 37.

' Referring now more particularly to Figs. 3, t and 5, the numeral te indicates a yarn supporting stick, a plurality of these sticks being employed in the present embodiment; Each of these sticks is preferably rectangular in cross section and is rotated during the yarn treating operation. To this end one end of the stick enters a squared socket in a rotatable stick support as iournaled in a bracket 41G carried by the frame 37, the other end of the stick, being supported in any suitable manner for rotation in said frame. The gears 35 in the present embodiment are provided with a clutch element, these gears being chambered so as to provide a ring 16 having an interior circular clutch surface at? overhanging certain other parts. The numeral 48 indicates a shallow recess in the surface a7, and 49 indicates a cooperative clutch element or shoe bearing on the surface t? and adapted to 'frictionally cooperate therewith so as to tend to transmit the rotation of the driven member, or gear 35, to the stick 44.. Numeral 50 indicates a yoke having a projection, or tooth 51, which is adapted to be seated in the recess 18, and

which at a proper time is thrust into said recess by means of a spring 52 disposed between the yoke and shoe and exerting its stress to press the shoe and the tooth in the direction of the surface 4:? of the driven element 35. The rotatable stick support 45 is provided with a transverse channel in which the shoe and yoke above referred to are guided in their movements relatively to.

each other, this channel being provided by a pair of flat plates53 and 54 carried by the rotatable member 45 and extending intothe chamber of the gear 35, being overhung by the ring 456. The plates 53 and 5a engage the lateral fiat faces of the shoe 4:9 and yoke 50, permitting movement of the shoe relative to the yoke transversely of the axis of the stick, and coupling the stick to the yoke and shoe so that rotation of the yoke and shoe may efi'ect rotation of the member 45 and, consequent .y, of the stick. In order to center the plates 53 and at relatively to the surface 4-7, the member as has an extended portion comprising a shaft 55 engaging .a centering opening, or bearing 56, in the gear 35, the shaft 55 having oppositely flattened faces 57 engaging the yoke 50 where the yoke straddles the same. Preferably the gear 35 is directly mounted in the'bracket lG bolted to the frame 37 and having a cylindrical bearing 59 in which an extended portion 60 of the gear 35 rotatively bears, and is effectively supported.

By the above described construction I it will be observed that the axis of each stick is stationarily positioned during the yarn treating operation, the stick nevertheless being capable of rotating on its axis during the yarn treating operation in order to move the hanks of yarn relatively to the respective sticks so that the dye liquor may have access tothe portions of the yarn lying against the sticks.

The operation should be obvious from the foregoing description, but may be briefly de scribed as follows. The covers are thrown back and the frame 37 carrying the yarn sticks on which the yarn field is supported is lowered into the vat, the frames 37 -rest ing upon the shoulder 36. The frame hav ing the deflecting plates 38 is placed inposition opposite the upper face of the yarn field and the cover is closed The yarn sticks will be slowly rotated so that the parts of the yarn hanks in contact therewith will even-- tually come in free and unobstructed contact with the dye liquor, and after a proper length of time the operation of dyeing will be completed, whereupon the covers may be thrown back and the frame 37 lifted by any suitable means to carry the hanks of yarn out of the dye liquor, this lifting also carrying the deflecting plates 88 therewith if they have not previously been removed. Should the yarn become entangled, or if for any other reason normal rotative movement of the sticks be resisted, the automatically yieldable power transmitting device, in the present embodiment, the friction clutch connection between the gears 35 and the sticks, will yield, and the gears may continue to rotate under the driving power without further rotative movement of the sticks. The shallow recess48 cooperating with the tooth {)1 H of the yoke 50 forms a sufficient frictional connection'between the gear 35 and the stick support 4-5 to cause the support 40 and the stick therein to be effectively rotated during theoperation of dyeing, and abnormal-re sistance to rotation of the stick will cause the tooth 51 to escape fromthe recess 48 and permit it to remain stationary while the gear 35 continues to rotate under the influence of the power. The dye liquor flows gently upward through the yarn field and hasha tendency to uphold the hanks, causing the bight of yarn over the sticks to spread somewhat so that the dye liquor may come into contact with more of the yarn closely adjacent the stick thanit would if this expanding were absent. This expanding, however, when the hanks of the field are closely associated, may result in entanglement of one hank with another, so as to obstruct rotation of the sticks, in which case the connection between the sticks and the driving means will yield, the sticks thereafter remaining rotatively at rest though the driving means continues to operate.

Thus by the above described construction are accomplished, amongothers, the objects hereinbefore referred to.

'As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. I

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention, which, as a matter of. language, might 'be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a yarn treating machine, in combination, a rotary yarn supporting stick the axis of which is stationarily positioned during the yarn treating operation, and

means adapted to rotate said stick during the yarn treating operation comprising an automatically yieldable power transmitting device adapted to permit-operation of said rotating means without rotating said stick.

2. In a yarn treating machine, in combination, a rotary yarn supporting stickthe axis of which is stationarily positioned during the yarn treating operation, and means adapted to rotate said stick during the yarn treating operation comprising a friction and a tooth movable .relative to said ,shoe

driven member having an interior clutch clutch connection between said stick and said means y In a yarn treating machine, in combination, a rotary yarn supporting'stick the axis of which is stationarily positionedlduring the yarn treating operation, and means adapted torotatesaid stick during the yarn treating operation comprisinga rotatable driven. member, a; clutch elementrotatable with said stick andbea-ring on said driven member and aspringadapted to cause pres sure between said driven member and clutch element. V

4. In a yarn treating machine, in combination, a rotary yarn supporting-stick the axis of whichris stationarily positioned during the yarn treating operation, and means adapted to rotate said stick during the yarn treating operation comprising cooperative clutch elements, one having a shallow recess adapted-to receive a projection on-thefother, anda spring adapted to yieldingly retain said projection in said recess. e 1

5. v In a yarn treating machine, in combination, a rotary yarn supporting stick the axisof which is stationarily positioned during the yarn, treating operation, and means adapted-to rotate said stick during the yarn treating operation comprising a rotatable driven member, a friction clutch ring rotata-- ble therewith .and having a shallow recess in its surface, an element rotatable with said stick comprising ashoe engaging said ring adapted to engage said recess,and1- spring means adapted to .pres's'said shoe; andtooth against said ring.

6. In a yarn treating-machine, in combination, a rotatable stick support, a rotatable surfaceprovided witha shallow recess, a shoe to engage said surface, a tooth movable relative to saidshoe adapted to engage said recess, a spring. between said shoe and 1 tooth to press said shoe and said tooth against said surface and into said recess,

respectively, said stick. support having i means to cause it to rotate with said shoe and tooth. i

7. In a yarn treating machine, in combination, a rotatable stick support, a rotatable driven member having an interior clutch surface with a shallow recess, ai shoe to engage said surface, a tooth movable relative to said shoe adapted to engage said recess, a spring between said shoe and tooth to press said shoe and said tooth against said surface andinto said recess, respectively, said tooth being connected to said stick support. so as rotate therewith.

8. In a yarn treating machine, in combination, a rotatable stick support, a'rotatable driven member havingv an interior clutch surface provided with a shallow recess, a

relative to said shoe adapted to engage said recess, a spring between sald shoe and tooth to press said shoe and said tooth agalnst said surface and into said recess, respectively, said stick support having a transverse channel in which said tooth and shoe are guided.

10. In a yarn treating machine, in combination, a rotatable stick support, a rotatable driven member having an interior clutch surface provided with a shallow recess, a shoe to engage said surface, a tooth movable relative to said shoe adapted'to engage said recess, a spring between said shoe and tooth to press said shoe and said tooth against said surface and into said recess, respectively, said stick support having a pair of fiat plates opposite said clutch surface laterally engaging said shoe and tooth.

11. In a yarn treating machine, in combination, a rotatable stick support having a transversely disposed channel, a rotatable chambered driven member having a clutch surface overhanging said channel and provided with a shallow recess, a shoe and a transversely disposed channel, a rotatable chambered driven member having a clutch surface overhanging said channel and provided with a shallow recess, a shoe and a tooth in said channel and adapted to engage said surface and recess, respective1y, a

spring adapted to press said shoe and tooth towards their respective engaging elements, and a bearing in said driven member, said stick support having a centering member engaging said bearing.

13. In a yarn treating machine, in combination, a rotatable stick support having a transversely disposed channel, a rotatable chambered drivenmember having a clutch surface overhanging said channel and provided with a shallow recess, a shoe and a tooth in said channel and adapted to engage said surface and recess, respectively, a spring adapted to press said shoe and tooth towards their respective engaging elements,

and a bearing in said driven member, said stick support having a centering member engaging said bearing, provided with a flat face, said tooth comprising a yoke straddling said centering member and engaging said flat face.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of June, 1920.

WILLIAM J. GOING. 

